The Floods
SINGLRTON,—In your paper you say the river was bank high at Singleton, and bud founded some of the houses there. Now the truth is the river came no nearer than within 16 or 18 feet of…
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Floods & storms, 1857
11 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers
Hunter River District. Calamitous Flood. Part of Maitland Submerged
It is my melancholy duty to record the occurrence of one of the greatest floods that have happened within the memory of the oldest resident in this district. All admit that the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subsidence of the Flood Waters. Maitland
The river continuous to fall steadily, and last evening the total fall appeared to be about fifteen feet from the highest point. In every quarter the inundating water is receding pretty fast, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter River District. Statistics of the Late Flood. Maitland June 26. 1857
The flood having now considerably abated, and opportunity has been afforded for collecting to a considerable extent, accurate statistics of the damage actually done, and of partially estimating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Kt Prevalebit." Saturday, August 1, 1857. the Bathurst Floods
THE flood of Tuesday last; is beyond question, the heaviest one which has been experienced since the great flood of 1844, which never was equalled, since; the while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effects of the Storm
The rain which set in on Monday morning continued to fall through the day, night, and yesterday up to 5 o'clock in the evening, when there was a lull both in the wind and rain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Easterly Gale. Wrecks in Port. Loss of the Barque Fame, Dismasting of the Barque Indus and Other Causualties
During the whole of Monday and yesterday this port was visited by one of the severest easterly [?] remembered for some years past accompanied with heavy nd incessant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood on the Hunter
We compile from the accounts in the local journals the following particulars of the flood which has for a second time this year devastated shere fertile districts, it will be seen that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Flood on the Turon
I have Keen a letter from a Turon Correspondent in the Sydney Morning Herald describing the recent flood of the Turon as Doing one of the greatest and most disastrous in its consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Flood on the River Williams
Among instances innumerable of me[?]itorious conduct and stirring incident, connected with the late calamitous flood on the River williams the following deserve honour the mention:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Hail-storm in France
The late storms, which caused no damage in Paris or the neighbourhood, have not been so harmless in other quarters. Accounts from Verdun sate that a…
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